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Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography
Forbidden Knowledge From Prometheus to Pornography
Author: Roger Shattuck
Forbidden Knowledge is the Summa of Roger Shattuck's distinguished career, and surpasses his superb The Banquet Years and his wonderful commentaries on Proust. — In his “best achievement to date” (Harold Bloom), National Book Award- winner Roger Shattuck gives us a “deeply learned, highly intelligent, and b...  more »
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ISBN: 380451
Publication Date: 1996
Pages: 369
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Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette
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Dixie avatar reviewed Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography on + 179 more book reviews
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An exploration of the meaning of moral responsibility in literature and daily life. In Shattuck's view the tragic destiny of Western culture has been to gradually erode all sacredness in a continued transgression of all limits. In the quest for knowledge and ever more rarified experience, the link between boundaries and the moral life has been broken. Shattuck hopes that we can yet recover our innocence by reexamining the greatest myths and stories of our tradition.
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jdauntless avatar reviewed Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography on + 112 more book reviews
An epic voyage through the world of the sacred and the profane.


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